Hostel Capital Improvement Programme
The Hostel Capital Improvement Programme (HCIP) is a government scheme that gives money to improve the standard of single homeless hostels across the country. £90 million is to be spent on 150 projects around Britain by March 2008.
The money will help to improve the quality and standards within hostels. The aim is to make a huge difference to some of the thousands of vulnerable people within our society.
As part of this programme, Liverpool City Council made a bid for funding in April 2006. We won £3.7m to modernise the Men's & Women's Single Homeless Hostels. The project includes the modernisation of the buildings, services & staffing. The building projects are well under way and will be completed this year (2007).
Work has now started to improve the level of service which is offered to homeless people. As part of this, at the end of 2006, four workshops were held with service providers representing:
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The purpose of these workshops was to work out how best we can use the modernised buildings, bring new services into the hostels, and how we can reinforce or create new links to services outside the hostels.
You can download and read the Feedback from these sessions by clicking on each of the hyperlinks above.
In the next step, we will talk to other agencies, staff and people who stay in our hostels to decide what services would be most useful and that can be delivered by the time the new buildings reopen later this year.
Further information
Find out more about the government's Hostels Capital Improvement Programme on the Communities and Local Government website.